Crazy weather

[3Deep]

Our power company in our area sucks, anytime a small storm or rain hits us our electric goes off and on causing surges we had it mess up some of our equipment before, but put that aside today a storm blew up and we hear banging on the metal door in back, and low and behold it's hail hitting the ground, oh and the electric is going on and off, so we just stopped printing

[Doug S]

Yeah, there is nothing like printing a 5 or 6 color job with the dryer full and just a split second of power outage interrupts everything.  It happens here often also.

[Rockers]

May I ask how this is still possible in a country like the US. Shitty infrastructure or what is the problem?

[brandon]

The entire country has crap infrastructure but you should see it here in New Orleans. Literally held together by duct tape and a prayer for what that's worth. The local saying is "Preservation through Neglect." It shows.

[mk162]

It's not bad infrastructure necessarily..it's the fact we are so spread out.  Most countries are the size of a state and therefor much denser in population.  We have to run power everywhere.  I mean look at the photos out west where the power lines run next to a 2 lane highway without a single thing on them for miles and miles.

Some areas are worse than others, we are fortunate at our house that we almost never have problems.  At the shop though we had some power issues but a couple phone calls later and they seemed to have fixed it.  Our local power and water companies here do a fantastic job providing good clean utilities.

It's the same reason why our internet isn't as fast as countries like South Korea.  We have a problem of needing quantity which directly effects quality.

[Shirt Lord]

Check these out fellas:

https://omegaps.com/Power/MultiphaseSpec.html

If you have shoddy power in your area (we do during storms), you can put these on your 3-phase equipment to help protect them from surges and phase drops when power goes out. We put these on after we had a main blower motor on our dryer go out after a brown-out. It lost 3-phase, retained single-phase and that burned the motor out after a few seconds because the dryer never shut off since there was still technically power to the machine.

Littelfuse has these voltage monitors you can put on as well that will e-stop the equipment if voltage goes too low or high during a surge.

https://www.littelfuse.com/products/protection-relays-and-controls/protection-relays/voltage-monitoring-relays/201a.aspx

They are relatively inexpensive and any electrician can install them in a matter of minutes per machine.

[mk162]

Nice link shirtlord!  I have been looking for something like that for a while!

[inkman996]

We have been pushing 100 degrees for over two weeks straight and we had a hurricane/tropical storm in the middle of it. Never seen weather this bad before and people are still out of power after over 1 million lost power for Isiah

[Sbrem]

We have been pushing 100 degrees for over two weeks straight and we had a hurricane/tropical storm in the middle of it. Never seen weather this bad before and people are still out of power after over 1 million lost power for Isiah

We're just a little north and east of you in CT, 20 miles outside of Boston, and it's been a shitty couple of weeks for sure, 95°+, real high humidity, we caught some of that storm too. The shop is around 90° today, not so bad, lol.

Steve

[Admiral]

That stinks that you get that a lot.

In our previous building a power outage took out our one quartz flash sensor.  We got power back on Friday and realized it then and I had no choice but to wire it up to a light switch and we had someone activate the flash on (timer worked to turn it off and flipping the switch either way which activated it).  This was done over 16,000 times over the next few days...

New building we lost power 2 months ago, the transformer had 2 bayonet fuses go bad and our lights were flickering all crazy (LED).  Shut down and waited for our power company to figure it all out.

[DonR]

I am also in CT right on the NY border. My building was hit by at least a 70 mile per hour wind gust. Attached is a picture of my roof which was ripped off.  As the roof came off it took out the gas lines that go to my dryer. We are up and running again but waiting for the insurance company to fund the new roof we need.

[inkman996]

Wallingford here, we are lucky we are the only town in the state that owns its own electrical company, as you might guess service is out standing. But the rest of the state wow what a disaster. One of my closest friends is a state rep and he is leading the charge in the investigation of what happened and why. Its easy to say the storm was far worse than predicted for CT  which it was but the fact that CL&P was caught do bad with their pants down right after increasing delivery rates by three times shows  serious issues. My friend that lives in Moodus just got her power back yesterday crazy

[bimmridder]

Want to hear some gripes? If I get phone and internet back at the shop I’ll write more